[Quote No.44208] Need Area: Friends > Friends "I meet far too many people who respond to a new idea or suggestion with, 'Let me tell you how I do it,' or, 'I disagree.' Their immediate response is to protect their own thinking patterns or try to prove they know more. These are people with sclerosis of the mind. Too many people don't change because they're afraid to admit they're wrong or inefficient or ineffective. Strong people change all the time because they know that's how they continue to improve. With whom are you associating daily? Are you with those who build moated castles to defend against intellect, or those who sally forth daily to find better ways? Only you can decide with whom you'll ride. But even horses have the sense to follow those who move on to new pastures where food is more plentiful and the view changes." - Dr. Alan WeissAuthor's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.47000] Need Area: Friends > Friends "QUESTION: What do these great achievers have in common: Isaac Newton (physicist), Fredrick Nietzche (philosopher), Rene Descarte (philosopher), Immanuel Kant (philosopher), and Blaise Pascal (mathematician and physicist)? ANSWER: They all made immense contributions to society. None of them married and most of them lived alone. All of them craved solitude." - Stephen PletkoTop 1000 Amazon reviewer. Quote from his review of 'Solitude: A Return to the Self', by British psychotherapist Anthony Storr, who in the book examines the solitude sought by many other imaginative and creative individuals including Kafka, Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Beethoven and Wittgenstein.Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image

[Quote No.49447] Need Area: Friends > Friends "[Connection, intimacy, isolation, loneliness, aloneness and individualism, even solipsism:] We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes." - Aldous HuxleyFrom his book, 'The Doors of Perception'.Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image